Szeptyckitheca vanderdrifti (Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964)

Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante, Oliveira, Mariana Fernandes De, Weiner, Wanda Maria, Nunes, Rudy Camilo & Medeiros, Gleyce Da Silva, 2023, Revisiting Szeptyckitheca Betsch & Weiner (Collembola, Symphypleona, Sminthuridae): new species, updated diagnoses, and a key, ZooKeys 1186, pp. 139-174 : 139

Szeptyckitheca vanderdrifti (Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964)

Sphyrotheca vanderdrifti Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964b: 64.

Diagnosis.

Yellowish ground color, with indistinct pigmented fields and purplish spots on the dorsum, antennae purplish. Ant. IV with ~ 10 subsegments; Ant. III with 19 chaetae other than the sensory clubs; Ant. II with 14 chaetae, two or three of them clearly longer than the others; Ant. I with six chaetae. Eyepatches with two interocular chaetae modified into strong spines each. Head vertex with a total of 16 large spines, two of them unpaired; unpaired chaeta A1 absent; secondarily reduced chaeta near the spines present. Trochanters I-III with 1,1,1 spines, respectively, trochanter I spine acuminate and III capitate; trochanter III with four regular chaetae other than the spine. Ungues with a single inner tooth, with tunica and strong pseudonychia; unguiculus I with the internal tooth; unguiculus III filament thin and not reaching the tip of the unguis III. Large abdomen lacking capitate mac. Female with a long subanal appendage (surpassing the ventral anal valves), acuminate, and apically or almost entirely serrated on its both edges. Dens ventral chaetotaxy formula from the apex to the base as: 2,1 … 1, dorsal chaetotaxy with 16 chaetae; mucronal notch discrete (adapted from Delamare-Deboutteville and Massoud 1964b).

Habitat.

Specimens were found on marshy wood on sandy loam and shrubs on a ridge ( Delamare-Deboutteville and Massoud 1964b).

Known distribution.

Suriname ( Delamare-Deboutteville and Massoud 1964b).